Fake News

Les méchants (Fake News, 2021) is a French comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Dominique Baumard and Mouloud Achour, it takes one small act of petty theft and watches it spiral into a national media catastrophe.

Sébastien steals a gaming console from migrants and tries to sell it to Patrick — hardly the crime of the century. Then a rapper fresh out of jail, a TV host chasing viral hits, and a crew of click-traffickers all grab onto the story. The two of them end up as France's most wanted. Light social satire with a surprisingly accurate read on how outrage gets manufactured. Stream Les méchants (2021) online on iFILM.